Sheep Mountain is such a great test piece- 4k feet up in 5 miles on mostly hard power grade terrain. Amy King and I have both run this at a fast pace independently but thought it would be a fun project to run together to push ourselves for a worthy fast time as well as to establish a standardized time for FKTs since Sheep is such a classic Jackson Hole summit. We started at 9:02am to try to beat the heat. Amy summited at 1hr 25 min 28 seconds and I followed summiting 30 seconds behind her. We snapped a few photos and took off back down. Amy, who is far better at downhills, flew ahead and reached the trailhead at 2hrs 10 min and 51 seconds. I finished at 2 hrs 17 min and 30 seconds. Although we are submitting this as an unsupported team effort, Amy's independent round trip time would be the true time to beat.
Notes- we packed enough fluid not to have to refill (and the peak is almost entirely dry by the end of June). I carried bear spray. I believe we both used one gel each as fuel. Super light.